The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students LearnKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007年12月18日 - 288 頁 If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language in classroom and library materials. But according to Diane Ravitch, a leading historian of education, what began with the best of intentions has veered toward bizarre extremes. At a time when we celebrate and encourage diversity, young readers are fed bowdlerized texts, devoid of the references that give these works their meaning and vitality. With forceful arguments and sensible solutions for rescuing American education from the pressure groups that have made classrooms bland and uninspiring, The Language Police offers a powerful corrective to a cultural scandal. |
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... Against Mediocrity : Improving the Teaching of the Humanities in America's High Schools The School and the City : Community Studies in the History of American Education The Language Police * THE LANGUAGE POLICE How Pressure Groups.
... Against Mediocrity : Improving the Teaching of the Humanities in America's High Schools The School and the City : Community Studies in the History of American Education The Language Police * THE LANGUAGE POLICE How Pressure Groups.
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... teachers or admin- istrators or journalists or scholars , I had always assumed that text- books were based on careful research and designed to help children learn something valuable . I thought that tests were designed to assess whether ...
... teachers or admin- istrators or journalists or scholars , I had always assumed that text- books were based on careful research and designed to help children learn something valuable . I thought that tests were designed to assess whether ...
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... teachers , and to their schools . As someone who had been active in supporting the movement for academic standards during the 1980s and 1990s , both as a private citizen and as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Educa ...
... teachers , and to their schools . As someone who had been active in supporting the movement for academic standards during the 1980s and 1990s , both as a private citizen and as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Educa ...
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... teachers and a state superintendent of education . All of us read the passages submitted by the test contractor , a major publisher that had won a multimillion- dollar contract from the Department of Education . The committee approved ...
... teachers and a state superintendent of education . All of us read the passages submitted by the test contractor , a major publisher that had won a multimillion- dollar contract from the Department of Education . The committee approved ...
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... teachers , and the public need to be aware of these assumptions and the reasoning process behind them , because they are reducing the curricu- lum in the schools to bland pabulum . So what did the bias and sensitivity reviewers ...
... teachers , and the public need to be aware of these assumptions and the reasoning process behind them , because they are reducing the curricu- lum in the schools to bland pabulum . So what did the bias and sensitivity reviewers ...
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